THAT THEY MAY HAVE LIFE

The thing I love about Christianity is how it’s filled with paradoxes. I love how it’s complex theological ideas keep brilliant minds debating and deliberating while at the same time Christianity’s message is so simple it is received, responded to and lived out even by children.

I love that it teaches that in order to gain life, one must give up their life.

I love that it teaches that only by admitting I am tainted by sin I can be washed clean.

Christianity is a religion that is rooted in one choice I must make. But this decision is not merely an idea I must choose to believe or a rule I must choose to follow. Rather, it is a person, and that person is Jesus.

So really, the thing I love about Christianity isn’t the paradoxes. It is Jesus, the ultimate paradox. He lived the perfect life so he could die as he took on our sins, giving up himself so that we can have new life.

Hear this truth in the following verses:

John 10:10 reads, “I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.”

John 10:28 reads, “I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them away from me.”

John 14:6 reads, “I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

By saying, “Yes!” to Jesus, I choose relationship over religion. I choose freedom in Christ over bondage to self. I choose life over death.

Martha has been a wife for 17 years and is the mother of three children ages 10, 9 and 5. When she’s not folding laundry, c
ooking meals, helping with homework, kissing boo-boos, grocery shopping, cleaning house and running errands; she loves to hold babies at Immanuel MOPS!